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...Despite its combination of beauty and talent, the band didn't prove a hit with Chinese audiences. Their luck changed only after Kazuma Tomoto, a Warner Music executive in Tokyo, saw a 12 Girls Band concert video and decided to import them to Japan. "I'd been thinking that Japan needed a new, energetic sound to jolt it out of its funk," says Tomoto. "The second I saw them, I knew they were going to be huge." His bosses weren't convinced, so Tomoto quit his job and started his own music label. It paid off: Tomoto's Platia Entertainment...
...have thrived due to hard work and determination? They spout off inspirational anecdotes of underprivileged students who “made it to Harvard” and tell stories of their once-destitute parents who made it big because of their entrepreneurial or otherwise outstanding abilities. (Of course, neither luck, nor good fortune, factor into the success of these “winners.”) Clearly, it’s all a testimony to the fact that those roughly 35 million Americans living in poverty are simply not driven or innovative enough to improve their plight. To these debaters...
...aired in the first place. Which brings us the one true innovation from this year's upfronts: following Fox, which is debuting many of its new shows in June, NBC will begin rolling out its series in late August, following its broadcast of the summer Olympics. With any luck, many of the shows you're reading about this week could be canceled before the beginning of fall. Who says nothing ever gets better in television...
...would choose pain, misanthropy and terrible luck as the recurring themes of a life, but Merritt has at least put his misery to excellent use. He is the great tragicomic songwriter of his age--equal parts Cole Porter and Charlie Brown--and love is his unkickable football. "Maybe it's being gay," says Merritt, "but for me, everything related to love is so awkward, it's automatically funny. Just the idea of love is embarrassing to me. It's the equivalent of singing in the street." In 1999 Merritt and his band the Magnetic Fields released 69 Love Songs...
...Evil Twin ("I wish I had an evil twin/Running round doing people in") could make it onto contemporary pop radio. "One day maybe I'll write the theme to a popular movie, and it'll become a hit," he says. "Or not. I haven't had all that much luck so far. I've pretty much had to get by on hard work. But statistically I'm bound to experience some actual luck one of these days." If he could just find that book...